{"id":5806,"date":"2017-02-04T05:15:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T05:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/04\/diversity-can-be-our-weakness\/"},"modified":"2017-02-04T05:15:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T05:15:30","slug":"diversity-can-be-our-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/04\/diversity-can-be-our-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity Can Be Our Weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada responding<\/a> to the fatal shooting at the Centre culturel islamique de Qu\u00e9bec located in the Ste-Foy neighbourhood of the city of Qu\u00e9bec:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Diversity is our strength, and religious tolerance is a value that we, as Canadians, hold dear.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I should think that strength derives from unity, not diversity. "United we stand; divided we fall."  See Mark 3:25: "And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand"; Matthew 12:25: "And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand," and Luke 11:17: "But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth."<\/span><\/p>\n

Diversity is of course good within limits. But a diversity worth having must submit to the control and discipline of the competing value, unity. Otherwise, diversity divides and destroys.<\/span><\/p>\n

Given that we are united in our commitment to religious liberty, we can tolerate a diversity of religious and anti-religious views. Unfortunately, Islam is not known for its toleration of competing faiths and non-faiths. In its core doctrine Islam is radically totalitarian and suppressive of dissent.  So radical Islam cannot be tolerated since it opposes toleration and religious liberty.<\/span><\/p>\n

A diversity so diverse that it tolerates the enemies of toleration and diversity is destructive.<\/span><\/p>\n

Much of the yammering about diversity by liberals is nothing but empty virtue-signalling. Liberals need to show appreciation for the competing value of unity. Until they do so we should denounce them as destructive fools.<\/span><\/p>\n

I of course condemn the attack on the Qu\u00e9bec mosque. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada responding to the fatal shooting at the Centre culturel islamique de Qu\u00e9bec located in the Ste-Foy neighbourhood of the city of Qu\u00e9bec: Diversity is our strength, and religious tolerance is a value that we, as Canadians, hold dear. I should think that strength derives from unity, not diversity. "United we … Continue reading “Diversity Can Be Our Weakness”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamism","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}